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Old October 1st 17, 03:07 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Joy Beeson
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It's obvious that emergency services would be an early adopter of
systems like "Find My Device". I just heard evidence; while dressing
after my nap, I heard someone say "can you see my location on your
map?" and the reply was "they're about seven hundred feet from you".
Who "they" is and why they want to find them hadn't transpired yet,
but they care very much whose property the trail goes through.

And while I was typing that I heard "juveniles" and "dirt bikes" and
"they are on private property; you can probably signal nine."

Opened this to say "do as I say, not as I do" As I left Owen's, I
felt my left heel hitting something. When I stopped to investigate, I
found a dangling bungee. Luckily, it was dangling down the middle of
the pannier and was in little danger of hitting the spokes. Maybe
that's a do-as-I-do: the default position for a bungee is fastened by
its middle to the middle joint of a pannier. But that's so I can
create a bungee lid on the pannier, not for safety.

Anyhow, before mounting up again I put my hand on the saddle and gave
the bike a firm shake to make sure nothing else was loose.

There's many a time I wished I was in the habit of shaking the bike
just before every mount, not just when I've put a bunch of stuff in my
panniers.

also had something else to discuss, but have forgotten what

Two of those paragraphs were typed this morning before I left, three
were expanded from notes tonight, and the sixth is a note that I can't
expand.

I was cripping around with a hip pain while getting dressed after my
nap. I can remember when a pain like that would ground me until it
healed, for fear of doing permanent damage. Now I just say "eh, it
will loosen up once I start moving" and it didn't hurt at all while I
was riding, but is threatening to come back if I sit at the keyboard
too long.

This is the last time I I'll go to Aldi on the Sprawlmart tour. To
get a few extra miles, I came back by way of the site of the new
store, which appears to be all set to open on Monday. Has more than
twice as many carts as the old store, so they must expect the new
location to get more traffic, but it's much harder to get to for me.
At a minimum, it's on the wrong side of US 30. And the shortest route
goes through Kroger's parking lot.

I was looking at the map a few days ago and was struck by inspiration:
DuPuy won't let people without cards come in the back door, but they
don't mind at all who goes out that way, so today I cut through the
campus. But even though the road I followed went around the edge, I
saw signs that prowling about the property was quite rude, and I was
probably distracting the security people. So I'll have to continue
going half a mile southeast on 30, six tenths of a mile north on 250
E, and a quarter mile west on Old 30.

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Joy Beeson
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